Rex and Rosemary Walls show a permissive form of parenting to their four children, Jeanette, Lori, Brian, and Maureen Walls. They are very lenient in curfew and behavior, they allow the children to virtually fend for themselves and they rarely, if ever, punish their kids for misconduct. The Walls parents placed a few rules, one being that the children could go anywhere they wanted, but they must return home when the street lights come on. The children could leave if they chose during the night because their mother slept hard and their father was always out. “Every now and then, when Brian and I were feeling revved up, he’d get a machete and I’d get a baseball bat and we’d go Pervert hunting…” (Walls 103). The Walls parents didn’t punish or
